I wanted to raise my kids to be bilingual because I am the last guardian of my family’s tongue, straddling the old world and ...

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Good morning, Chicago. The Christmas tradition has become nearly global in scope: Children from around the world track Santa Claus as he sweeps across the earth, delivering presents and defying time.

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It’s that time of year again … and we’ve invited 30 of our writers, from fields as disparate as wildlife ecology and ...

Local volunteers gave away about 7,000 new and used books, in English and Spanish, at the “Free-For-All” book fair at the ...

Each year, at least 100,000 kids call into the North American Aerospace Defense Command in Colorado. And they ask for Santa’s ...

On Christmas morning, I knew my prayers had been answered even before I ripped the paper off; I’d memorized the exact weight ...

Now in its 69th year, the holiday tradition lets children watch or call in to get updates on Santa Claus as he makes his way around the globe.